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Ahaziah’s Messengers Meet Elijah

1MOAB REBELLED against Israel after the death of Ahab.H4124H6586H3478H310H4194H2562[King] Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber in Samaria and lay sick. He sent messengers, saying, Go, ask Baal-zebub, the god of [Philistine] Ekron, if I shall recover from this illness.H274H5307H7639H5944H8111H2470H7971H4397H559H3212H1875H1176H430H6138H2421H24833But the angel of the Lord said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king in Samaria and say to them, Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?H4397H3068H1696H452H8664H6965H5927H7125H4397H4428H8111H1696H430H3478H1980H1875H1176H430H61384Therefore the Lord says: You [Ahaziah] shall not leave the bed on which you lie, but shall surely die. And Elijah departed.H559H3068H3381H4296H5927H4191H4191H452H32125When the messengers returned to Ahaziah, he said, Why have you turned back?H4397H7725H559H2088H77256They replied, A man came up to meet us who said, Go back to the king who sent you and tell him, Thus says the Lord: Is there no God in Israel that you send to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you shall not leave the bed on which you lie, but shall surely die.H559H5927H376H5927H7125H559H3212H7725H4428H7971H1696H559H3068H430H3478H7971H1875H1176H430H6138H3381H4296H5927H4191H41917The king asked, What was the man like who came to meet you saying these things?H1696H4941H376H5927H7125H1696H16978They answered, He was a hairy man with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.H559H8181H1167H376H247H232H5785H4975H559H452H86649Then the king sent to Elijah a captain of fifty men with his fifty [to seize him]. He found Elijah sitting on a hilltop and said, Man of God, the king says, Come down.H4428H7971H8269H2572H2572H5927H3427H7218H2022H1696H376H430H4428H1696H338110Elijah said to the captain of fifty, If I am a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty. And fire fell from heaven and consumed him and his fifty.H452H6030H1696H8269H2572H376H430H784H3381H8064H398H2572H3381H784H8064H398H257211Again King [Ahaziah] sent to him another captain of fifty with his fifty. And he said to Elijah, Man of God, the king has said, Come down quickly!H7725H7971H312H8269H2572H2572H6030H1696H376H430H4428H559H3381H412012And Elijah answered, If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty. And the fire of God came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty.H452H6030H1696H376H430H784H3381H8064H398H2572H784H430H3381H8064H398H257213Ahaziah sent again a captain of a third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up and fell on his knees before Elijah and besought him and said to him, O man of God, I pray you, let my life and the lives of these fifty, your servants, be precious in your sight.H7971H7725H8269H7992H2572H2572H7992H8269H2572H5927H935H3766H1290H5048H452H2603H1696H376H430H5315H5315H2572H5650H3365H586914Behold, fire came down from heaven and burned up the two captains of the former fifties with their fifties. Therefore let my life now be precious in your sight.H3381H784H3381H8064H398H8147H8269H7223H2572H2572H5315H3365H586915The angel of the Lord said to Elijah, Go down with him; do not be afraid of him. So he arose and went with him to the king.H4397H3068H1696H452H3381H3372H6440H6965H3381H442816Elijah said to [King] Ahaziah, Thus says the Lord: Since you have sent messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub, god of Ekron, is it because there is no God in Israel of Whom to inquire His word? Therefore you shall not leave the bed on which you lie, but shall surely die.H1696H559H3068H7971H4397H1875H1176H430H6138H430H3478H1875H1697H3381H4296H5927H4191H4191

Jehoram Reigns over Israel

17So Ahaziah died according to the word of the Lord which Elijah had spoken. Joram [also a son of Ahab] reigned in Israel in his stead in the second year of Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, because Ahaziah had no son [but his brother].H4191H1697H3068H452H1696H3088H4427H8147H8141H3088H1121H3092H4428H3063H112118Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?H3499H1697H274H6213H3789H5612H1697H3117H4428H3478